Tennessee Williams based his screenplay on Oscar Saul's adaptation of Williams' own Pulitzer Prize-winning play set in a grimy New Orleans project. The story of the fragile sentimentalism of a woman who visits her sister only to be taunted mercilessly by her childish brother-in-law. This classic film garnered 12 Academy Award Nominations (including Best Picture Best Director Best Actor (Marlon Brando) and Best Screeplay) winning 4 including Best Actress (Vivien Leigh) Best Supporting Actress (Kim Hunter) and Best Supporting Actor (Karl Malden). This version features three minutes of footage that was deleted from the final 1951 release version upon demands made by the Production Code footage thought lost until its rediscovery in the early 1990s. This DVD release is the fully restored version of Elia Kazan's original cut and the documentary 'Desire And Censorship' on Disc 2 describes his struggle in getting the past the censors.
Welcome to the Cafe Rene in the French village of Nouvion where you can get fine wines paintings by Van Clomp (not all originals) and a selection of German and British officers. The owner Rene Artois who may have his mind on other things ''- like his waitresses Yvette and Maria ''- will look after you. Just don''t tell his wife Edith!
Songs Include:1. Move It2. Living Doll3. Rock Around The Clock4. Be Bop A Lula5. When6. Elvis Medley: Teddy Bear - All Shook Up - Jailhouse Rock7. I Believe (Russell Watson)8. The Young Ones9. I'm In Love With You10. Needles And Pins11. She Loves You12. Apache (Hank Marvin)13. I'm Nearly Famous14. Miss You Nights15. Bright Eyes16. We Don't Talk Anymore17. Don't Cry For Me Argentina (Hank Marvin)18. Sci Fi19. I Just Don't Have The Heart20. Medley: Some People - A Little In Love - Remember Me21. It's In Every One Of Us22. Mistletoe And Wine23. Riders In The Sky (Hank Marvin)24. Can't Keep This Feeling In25. Nessun Dorma (Russell Watson)26. I Do Not Love You Isabella27. Everything I Do (I Do It For You)28. Vita Mia (with Vincenzo La Scola)29. Lucy (Barratt Waugh)30. Human Work Of Art31. Saviour's Day32. Millennium Prayer
This DVD bring together two films from 1940 starring horror icon Boris Karloff: Monogram Pictures' The Ape and the British Intelligence.Karloff plays one of his many mad scientists in The Ape directed by William Nigh who also helmed several of Karloff's Mr. Wong films. Curt Siodmak who wrote The Wolf Man and others for Universal gives Karloff plenty of fun dialogue. The crisp cinematography is by Harry Neumann who shot over 200 films covering everything from Buck Jones to
The five most popular Hammer films now in this DVD box set! Titles included on this release are: The Quatermass Experiment Quatermass II The Abominable Snowman X the Unknown and Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter.
The Millionairess (1960): Based on a play by George Bernard Shaw which studies an immensely wealthy woman who falls for the charms of a poor Indian doctor. Sophia Loren plays a spoilt heiress able to buy anything she wants. When she meets an Indian doctor (Peter Sellers) whose sole concern is to help the poor and needy she knows that this is the man for her. Although in love with her he is so terrified of being in her power that he foils all her attempts to 'buy' him. Only
Hollywood's take on the big-top life as the Duke shepherds his three-ring extravaganza through a European tour while searching for the aerialist he loved and lost - the mother of his daughter. Plenty of real-life circus performers perfectly balance the performance of The Duke.
Two nights of live performances on the 21st and 22nd September, 1998, at The Royal Albert Hall, enabled Cliff to say 'Thank You' to his fans for forty years in the music business.
Never before have so many resources been available to the family historian tracing Great War ancestors both online and locally but the past dearth of easily accessible material has now been replaced by a blizzard of information that needs its own skills to navigate. Expert genealogist Simon Fowler shows Richard Hone the ropes with some surprising results. Armed with details of Richards great uncle William Pye's service between 1914 and 1918 the film sets out with battlefield historian Tim Saunders to Find Uncle Bill and trace his war on the Western Front to his death just weeks before the Armistice. Their journey takes them from his first battle at Loos via the Somme and Passchendaele to his last battle and lost grave in the Ypres Salient.
When Wallis Simpson meets Edward Prince of Wales he is charmed by her flirtatious and straight-talking manner and begs her to divorce her husband Ernest. George V dies and Edward becomes King but he has no desire to give up Wallis for a life of Royal duty. As a constitutional crisis grips the nation Edward and the British Government lock horns. The Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin insists that Wallis cannot become Queen. Despite Wallis's pleas for him to remain King Edward feels forced to choose between his royal destiny and the woman he loves...
From award winning director Steve McQueen (Hunger), Shame is a compelling and timely examination of the nature of need, how we live our lives and the experiences that shape us.
From award winning director Steve McQueen (Hunger), Shame is a compelling and timely examination of the nature of need, how we live our lives and the experiences that shape us.
From the makers of Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda Turbo is a high-velocity 3D comedy about a snail who dares to dream big - and fast. After a freak accident infuses him with the power of super-speed Turbo kicks into overdrive and embarks on an extraordinary journey to achieve the seemingly impossible: competing in the world's fastest race the Indianapolis 500. With the help of his tricked-out streetwise snail crew this ultimate underdog puts his heart and shell on the line to prove that no dream is too big and no dreamer too small.
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Glenbogle remains in financial trouble and Lascelles Bank sends Stella Moon to oversee the day-to-day management of the estate. Stella takes an inventory and is shocked to discover the lavish lifestyle that the Glenbogle inhabitants enjoy and introduces startling cutbacks. These involve laying off Golly, Duncan and Lexie and giving away Hector's beloved dogs to Killwillie.
Eventually Stella relents, things begin to return to normal and the dogs are returned to Hector. Eve...
Massacre In Rome In the last days of the Nazi Occupation, a group of partisans plan an attack on a German police colunm.; Return From The River Kwai One of the last untold stories of World War 2 in the Far East. Starving British and Australian POWs make an attempt to escape Japanese brutality.; Skeleton Coast Colonel Smith's son,. a CIA agent, is captured by some mercenaries involved in an African civil war. Smith puts together a group of military press to save him. ;
4 great films on one disc
Director Lindsay Anderson pulls no punches in this classic screen adaptation of the hard hitting David Storey novel about violence and its effect on the quality of life.; ; Richard Harris and Rachel Roberts are outstanding as Machin, the professional rugby player who carries the violence of the football field into every area of his life, and Mrs Hammond, the frigid and withdrawn woman with whom he lodges and conducts a joyless affair.; ; As well as examining their relationship in minute and p...
A dramatization of the true story of the heroic and inspiring Allied effort in which 20,000 planes were flown across the Atlantic due to German U-boats making aircraft shipments impossible by sea. Winston Churchill described the mission as 'the greatest unsung contribution to victory'.
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